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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 肝肠寸断

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
肝肠寸断 gān cháng cùn duàn - lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom)
- fig. grief-stricken

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 53,530 56,846 29,477

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
gān- liver (CL:葉|叶[ye4])
- (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing (a video game)
- (of a video game) involving a lot of repetition in order to progress; grindy
cháng- intestines
cháng- old variant of 腸|肠[chang2]
cùn- a unit of length
- inch
- thumb
duàn- to break
- to snap
- to cut off
- to give up or abstain from sth
- to judge
- (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
- definitely
- decidedly

Other Words Containing 肝肠寸断

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
肝肠寸断 - - 53,530 56,846 29,477